12 Rules for Self-Leadership

1.Set goals for your life; not just for your job.

2. Practice discretion constantly, and lead with the example of how your own good behavior does get great results.

3. Take initiative. Volunteer to be first. Be daring, bold, brave and fearless, willing to fall down, fail, and get up again for another round.

4. Be humble and give away the credit. Going before others is only part of leading; you have to go with them too.

5. Learn to love ideas and experiments. Everything was impossible until the first person did it.

6. Live in wonder. Wonder why, and prize “Why not?” as your favorite question. Its like Steve Jobs said, “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish”

7. There are some things you don’t take liberty with. Integrity means to tell the truth. To be ethical is to do the right thing. These are not fuzzy concepts.

8. Believe that beauty exists in everything and in everyone, and then go about finding it. You’ll be amazed how little you have to invent and much is waiting to be displayed.

9. Actively reject pessimism and be an optimist. Say you have zero tolerance for negativity and self-fulfilling prophecies of doubt, and mean it.

10. Champion change. Keep reinventing yourself, if you wish to get different results

11. Be a lifelong learner. Surround yourself with mentors and people smarter than you. Seek to be continually inspired by something.

12. Care for and about people. Compassion and empathy become you, and keep you ever-connected to your humanity. People will choose you to lead them.

I would not say it is the best list on self-leadership but it is a start. Take a special look at words I have in bold, if you can accept those and make you ego accept 4,7,11 and 12 then you will be a leader soon. Remember if you learn to lead yourself then people will soon follow you. Like everything in life it is easier said than done. Read the complete article at Life Hack.

source: http://onepowerfulword.blogspot.com/2007/05/12-rules-for-self-leadership.html